Soft Boiled Eggs No. II
Ingredients
Directions
Place the eggs in a pot with 1 quart of cold water.
Bring the water to a boil.
Once boiling, remove the pot from the heat and cover it.
Let the eggs sit for 8 to 10 minutes.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Eggs
- Proteins set with gentle heat, so the whites firm while the yolk stays soft and runny.
The step that matters
Let the eggs sit for 8 to 10 minutes. After the pot leaves the heat, residual heat keeps cooking the eggs. The whites set while the yolks stay soft, so each extra minute firms the yolk and cuts the timing margin.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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